Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:57:00 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2 In-Reply-To: <3AEBED10.4768DEC8@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Richard Dawe wrote: > I just looked in the directory I used to build the package > and files like NEWS are actually NEWS. I had to turn on the "Allow all > uppercase names" option in View -> Folder Options -> View in the Explorer > window, before I could see this. This is on Win98 SE. Yes, Windows works hard to prevent you from seeing the exact letter-case of file names. > I am using WinZip 8.0. WinZip /looks/ like it does some bizarre filename > manipulation, when you look at the list of files in an archive - e.g. NEWS > is listed as "News" in the file list, "news" in the file properties. "News" is the ``standard'' name mangling done by Windows Explorer. I guess WinZip tries to follow suit. > So it looks like Explorer and WinZip are trying to be "helpful" in the way > they present filenames. Yes, it's a known misfeature. > Eli, while rummaging around I found an option that may have broken the > Emacs pretests that I extracted with WinZip. In Options -> Configuration > -> Miscellaneous there is an option entitled "TAR file smart CR/LF > conversion". I guess this is similar to unzip's -a option. Yes, this is one nasty problem with WinZip. The result is that it converts loaddefs.el into CRLF format, which is (was) a mortal blow to Emacs because of the special treatment of LF characters in loaddefs.el. Since then, I made a change in Emacs so that the special handling of loaddefs.el is not affected by this problem.